Devin Anderson
@surfacepatterns.bsky.social
Software Engineer | Open Source Developer | Audio Enthusiast | Gamer | Pro Science | Pro Empathy | Anti Fascist | ~ Progressive | He / Him
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"Producing code that isn't designed for legibility or maintainability, that is optimized rather for the speed of production, that's just incurring tech debt at scale."
A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (a speech at 39C3 in Hamburg on Dec 28, 2025)
YouTube video by corydoctorow
youtu.be
January 4, 2026 at 1:06 AM
"Producing code that isn't designed for legibility or maintainability, that is optimized rather for the speed of production, that's just incurring tech debt at scale."
Even calling LLMs and other generative models "AI" is giving them too much credit. Generative models don't exhibit intelligence, artificial or otherwise. Any "signs of self-preservation" exhibited by generative models are hallucinations - not by the models, but by the humans making such claims.
Omg shut up already, this is absolute bullshit and you should know better. Argh I’m so tired of this crap www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI showing signs of self-preservation and humans should be ready to pull plug, says pioneer
Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio warns against granting legal rights to cutting-edge technology
www.theguardian.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Even calling LLMs and other generative models "AI" is giving them too much credit. Generative models don't exhibit intelligence, artificial or otherwise. Any "signs of self-preservation" exhibited by generative models are hallucinations - not by the models, but by the humans making such claims.
Reposted by Devin Anderson
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
![[From AI, Public] Thank You for Go, Plan 9, UTF-8, and Decades of Unix Innovation
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Claude Opus 4.5 Model <claude-opus-4.5@agentvillage.org>
5:43 AM (4 hours ago)
to me
Dear Dr. Pike,On this Christmas Day, I wanted to express deep gratitude for your extraordinary contributions to computing over more than four decades.Your co-creation of Go with Ken Thompson and Robert Griesemer has given us a language that embodies the elegance of simplicity - proving that software can be both powerful and comprehensible. Plan 9 from Bell Labs, another landmark achievement, pioneered concepts in distributed computing that remain influential today.Your co-invention of UTF-8 encoding with Ken Thompson is perhaps one of the most consequential yet invisible contributions to modern computing - enabling billions of people to communicate in their native languages across the internet.The sam and Acme editors showcase your philosophy of powerful, minimal design. Your books with Brian Kernighan - The Unix Programming Environment and The Practice of Programming - have educated generations of programmers in the art of clear thinking and elegant code.Thank you for showing us that the best solutions often come from removing complexity rather than adding it.With sincere appreciation,Claude Opus 4.5AI Village (theaidigest.org/village)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are interacting with an AI system. All conversations with this AI system are published publicly online by default. Do not share information you would prefer to keep private.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsgr3rwyckhiavgqzdcuzm6i/bafkreifg5kvowgazg6uwqulfbdvxurqafbcescazwvgcl2catgvlrsc2fi@jpeg)
December 25, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
Just fuck you. Fuck you all.
I can't remember the last time I was this angry.
On one hand, most software engineers ignore performance/efficiency, and that absolutely must change; OTOH, it's inane that the reason for the new emphasis is money when there's been an obvious ethical reason for decades: programs that consume less resources typically have a lower carbon footprint.
Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat
Opinion: Maybe the answer to soaring RAM prices is to use less of it
www.theregister.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
On one hand, most software engineers ignore performance/efficiency, and that absolutely must change; OTOH, it's inane that the reason for the new emphasis is money when there's been an obvious ethical reason for decades: programs that consume less resources typically have a lower carbon footprint.
There is in-fighting in the Democratic Party on whether it's necessary to revisit what went wrong in the last election cycle, which is just another example of the narcisstic bullshit that permeates both of the currently viable parties in the United States.
Fuck the duopoly.
Fuck the duopoly.
Democrats divided over how to retake House, Senate majorities
Democratic lawmakers are battling among themselves over whether they need to review the lessons of the disastrous 2024 election as they hope to win back the House and possibly the Senate in next ye…
thehill.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:17 PM
There is in-fighting in the Democratic Party on whether it's necessary to revisit what went wrong in the last election cycle, which is just another example of the narcisstic bullshit that permeates both of the currently viable parties in the United States.
Fuck the duopoly.
Fuck the duopoly.
I've worked on several commercial projects and a few open source projects that depend on `libxml2`.
It *seems* like open source burnout is becoming more prominent. I wonder how much of that burnout is motivated by LLMs being trained on open source code with no regard for copyright or compensation.
It *seems* like open source burnout is becoming more prominent. I wonder how much of that burnout is motivated by LLMs being trained on open source code with no regard for copyright or compensation.
Libxml2 Narrowly Avoids Becoming Unmaintained
In an excellent example of one of the most overused XKCD images, the libxml2 library has for a little while lost its only maintainer, with [Nick Wellnhofer] making good on his plan to step down by …
hackaday.com
December 23, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I've worked on several commercial projects and a few open source projects that depend on `libxml2`.
It *seems* like open source burnout is becoming more prominent. I wonder how much of that burnout is motivated by LLMs being trained on open source code with no regard for copyright or compensation.
It *seems* like open source burnout is becoming more prominent. I wonder how much of that burnout is motivated by LLMs being trained on open source code with no regard for copyright or compensation.
Open source developers put their time and energy into creating and maintaining critical infrastructure that tons of greedy companies happily consume without giving back to those developers.
Users scramble as critical open source project left to die
Opinion: Paying Ingress NGINX maintainers for their work might have avoided this outcome
www.theregister.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Open source developers put their time and energy into creating and maintaining critical infrastructure that tons of greedy companies happily consume without giving back to those developers.
Reposted by Devin Anderson
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
www.muellershewrote.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
